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Zoe Nicholson - Love What You Eat Dietitian

Love What You Eat dietitians use The Non-Diet Approach and Intuitive Eating to help you be free from dieting.

20+years healing relationships with food & body
NonDiet, Size Inclusive Health, IntuitiveEating, Eating Disorders, Food intolerance, Gut Isdues
Do need help with your relationship with food?
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0419585415 We show you how to nurture a healthy relationship with food and your body. Our dietitians love food and we are passionate about helping others rediscover the pleasure of food and eating! Please visit www.lovewhatyoueat.com.au to learn more about how we can help you.

30/11/2025

Fortunately there are many health practitioners who do ask, so this is to help get the message out to more people (or those who don’t).

Please share this with anyone you think it would resonate with, or who would appreciate reading it.

As they say, “assumptions are the mother of all…”

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

28/11/2025

In working with many people on GLP-1s I am please to say most of our clients still want to feel hunger and they still want to enjoy food. Most of these people also recognise the importance of feeling hungry and the necessity of enjoyment of food for a full life to be lived.

I have even seen some people choose to stop the medication when they stop feeling an hunger, or they lose the joy in food or find they have little motivation to eat.

Our clients find it’s useful to hear that these medications affect people differently, some see a big reduction in appetite on a low dose and some still have a good appetite at higher doses. Weight loss also varies greatly from person to person and going up and up in doses doesn’t necessarily change this. Like with many things in life, what “works” for one person might not work for another.

We are taking new clients and would love to hear from you. See profile for contact.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

27/11/2025

Some food for thought. Do you organise your life around food, or food around your life?

A client expressed this to me this week, and it’s something that is not unusual to come up in sessions. So thought I’d share the concept.

Spontaneity is one the key benefits of being an intuitive (or attuned) eater. You can plan, but you can also choose not to. You can also break a plan if life calls for it.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

25/11/2025

Often I have clients who would love to eat toast for breakfast - it’s quick, easy, inexpensive - but they don’t as they’ve been led to believe by our diet culture, or “wellness” gurus, that it’s not healthy.

This can then mean they don’t feel they have time for breakfast as making a smoothie bowl, a cooked high protein breakfast or a fancy smoothie is just too time consuming (not to mention expensive).

Of course if you know more protein in your breakfast works better for you, then go with that. Akey part of a NonDiet approach is finding what works best for you!

I also have clients express concern that putting jam on their toast would be too much sugar. Enjoying jam or honey on your toast is not too much sugar.

Coffee and 2 slices of toast with jam or marmalade is what I enjoy for breakfast most days. Because it works just as well and as my cholesterol has been a little high, I use extra virgin olive oil (evoo) over butter - this is a little nutrition boost anyone can try. I do love my butter, so I use that from time to time or if I don’t have olive oil handy.

Click weblinks in our profile to learn more about a NonDiet approach or to make a booking (or text 0419 585 416) - we are taking new clients ☺️

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24/11/2025

Curious to know more, click weblink in profile for stacks more info on the non-diet/intuitive eating approach to health.

The brilliant thing about this approach is you can start just before Christmas without it messing with all the Christmas fun, and you can take it on holidays with you as you don’t have to follow prescriptive advice. You can learn to eat more intuitively anywhere at anytime.   We’d love to hear from you!

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

20/11/2025

In my over 20 years as dietitian helping people who struggle with food, one of the most common things I hear is around preoccupation with food. Thinking about food to the point of distress or in a way that becomes exhausting. This is the same “food noise” my clients taking a GLP-1 are talking about when they say the food noise is gone.��Then, after becoming more attuned to their bodies appetite cues and consistently responding to these cues, along with changing the way they think about food, this preoccupation starts to settle.

And then one of the most common things I hear people say - and one of my favourite things to hear from clients - is they are just not thinking about food as much, and when they do think about food, it’s in a functional or positive way.

With regard to point 3… This may even include advice you’ve been given by your doctor or other health professional. I’m not saying their advice is wrong, but if it’s adding to your food noise and back firing, there is other work you need to do first around your pyschology with food, before taking on the health advice.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

17/11/2025

We don’t need to focus on nutrition in schools, in fact too much nutrition information can back fire and lead to fearful relationships with food, shame around food and body, and sometimes even eating disorders.   Instead what if the focus was on the joy of food, different cuisines, where food comes from (how it’s grown and produced), having fun with cooking and the importance of having a healthy relationship with food (including sharing food with others)?   Primary school kids are too young to understand the nuance of nutrition information, they hear messages that suggest too much added sugar is not healthy, as “sugar is bad”. The world they live in will continue to confirm this through mainstream health messages and this is a recipe for a troubled relationship with food which can turn in disordered eating or an eating disorder.

Sure some nutrition information can be useful in the later school years, but first, let’s teach kids to experiment with food and cooking, trying different foods and giving them the confidence to enjoy all food.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

12/11/2025

When you’re doing the work to tune into your fullness cues and you find yourself noticing you’ve had enough before finishing the plate, the very common thought of “ooh it’s delicious, I want to keep eating” can make it challenging to choose to stop eating.

If you’ve been dieting or following any sort of food restriction, you may be more likely to experience the “I’ll get it while I can” effect where you think “I’ll just finish this and then I’ll be good tomorrow” or “better eat it all now as who knows when I’ll get to eat it again”.

What people discover as they stop restricting and allow themselves to eat freely, is that they can leave delicious food on their plate once they recognise they’ve eaten enough. As your brain learns that you can have delicious food whenever you’re hungry for it, and that there will always be more available, you will find this starts to happen.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

10/11/2025

Do you remember a time when it was just cereal and toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and dinner always included a carbohydrate (potato, bread, pasta, rice)? This was considered normal healthy eating and the term “carb heavy” didn’t exist.

The good news is that you can still enjoy these basic foods and eat as well as you need to. Eating well does not need to involve special ingredients, expensive “superfoods” or cutting out staples like bread and pasta.

The following relatively simple concepts are one brilliant way to avoid getting confused about what or how to eat, and you can apply them to just about any style of eating.

1. Eat because you are hungry. When you recognise you’re hungry, honour this by eating (for some people, this is not always straight forward, see full blog post in link below for more info).
2. Eat enough of what your body needs for both nourishment and pleasure
3. Eat food that you enjoy the taste of

(We acknowledge that it is a privilege to be able to eat this way and not everyone has access to, or can afford to eat this way)

You don’t need to make food choices based on calories, carbs or the latest food trend – and you don’t need to completely avoid sugar, eat “clean” or go “Keto”. That said, if you really enjoy any of these eating trends and you feel they serve you well both mentally and physically, then of course that’s fine too.

So let’s unpack this…

Link to full blog in profile or https://lovewhatyoueat.com.au/how-on-earth-did-eating-well-get-so-complicated/

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

06/11/2025

That the muesli bars contain less doesn’t make them better than an apple. A muesli bar is a muesli bar and apple is an apple. They provide some similar nutrients and some different nutrients. Sometimes an apple does the job as a snack and sometimes a muesli bar, and sometimes both may be needed.

The sugar in an apple mainly comes in the form of glucose, fructose and sucrose.

The sugar in a muesli bar is usually glucose, sucrose and honey (which is largely fructose and glucose).

While the sugars may come from different sources, the fruit sugar is made by the apple tree and the muesli bar sugar made by the cane sugar plant and bees, they essentially do the same thing in the body; that is provide vital energy for our brains and the rest of the body.

While apples (or other fruit) will give you vitamin C, the muesli bars can provide more protein and fat - also vital nutrients.

So in a nutshell, both can be nourishing choices.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

05/11/2025

Of course it can be great to cook from scratch, but we don’t always have the time or motivation and that’s ok! Allowing processed food into your life for convenience can help with ensuring you have food when you need it or throwing together a quick meal when you’ve limited time or a hungry demanding family to feed - aside from the fact that avoiding processed foods entirely is impossible.

Throwing together a quick tasty meal with processed food such as a pre-roasted chicken, salad mix, wraps and maybe a dip, or using a taco kit is still very nutritious. As can be a ready eat meal you just heat up.

Having muesli bars on hand as a snack can prevent you from getting over-hungry and turning into a “sugar monster” in the afternoon or feeling so hungry when you get home from work that the idea of cooking seems too big a task, and/or you devour a packet of biscuits and cheese before dinner.

If following health or wellness advice has you…

- stressing about not knowing what’s in your food
- feeling bad about feeding yourself or your family ready to eat (or partly ready to eat) food
- getting mad at yourself or feeling guilty for eating certain food
- starting to fixate on nutrition or your body
- feeling distress about your body

Then is this really supporting your health and wellness?

Wellness encompasses mental, emotional, social, spiritual and physical states. Catching up with a friend over coffee (or tea) and a sweet biscuit can also provide health benefits in terms of these other aspects of health.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

03/11/2025

Sadly, in many cases these drugs are just being used like a diet. If the reduced food intake whilst taking them can’t be maintained once people stop them, the weight will (and is) coming right back. The loss of muscle mass has implications for metabolism in the same way dieting does and when weight comes back, it’s a greater percentage of fat and potentially harder to lose.

Is it possible to use these medications in a way that isn’t just like dieting? The short answer is we don’t know for sure just yet. But if it is possible, it most likely will need to be lower doses and absolutely ensuring people are still eating fairly normal amounts of food and developing a healthy relationship with food. This is what I am endeavouring to do with the many people I am working with who have chosen to take them. This is not a promise or guarantee, it’s a best case scenario type approach.

Zoe & Kerrie - NonDiet dietitians and food lovers!

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